Nonprofits

Red Bag It

No color suits Raising a Reader (RAR) better than red. Even
from afar, the bright red bags, in the clutches of little hands,
draw attention. These simple and sturdy bags, filled with
bilingual children’s books, are the signature brand of Raising
a Reader, a nonprofit take-home book bag program that
encourages parents in at-risk homes to read aloud daily to
children under 5. The bags rotate through schools, childcare
settings such as Head Start, and local programs for
young mothers.

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